Local authorities have now released new details about a one-vehicle
wreck that killed a Gainesville man on Friday.

James Carl Barnes, 62, the driver of a 2006 Mack dump truck
died after his truck went off the roadway and overturned while traveling north
on Hwy. 9 near Glover Drive, according to a press release from the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Office.

“The dump truck went off the right side of the roadway, then
traveled left going back across the roadway before coming to a rest on its
passenger side in a ditch,” the release stated.

At the time of the wreck, Sheriff’s Office Deputy Wendell DeJoie said that Barnes was trapped inside the overturned
vehicle and was later pronounced dead at the scene.

Hwy. 9 was closed for several hours at Majors Road and
Bethelview Road while the wreck was investigated, but was later reopened.

This crash remains under investigation by the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office Traffic Specialist Unit, according to the report.